Amun Abdullahi or Amun Abdullahi Mohammed (born October 23, 1974) is a Somali-Swedish

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and founder of a girls' school in

Mogadishu Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port ...

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

Biography

Amun Abdullahi grew up in Somalia and came in the 1990s to

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as a

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. In Sweden, she lived first in

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, then

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district, and finally

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, before moving back to Mogadishu, Somalia. In Stockholm, she worked for SR International, and made several high-profile reports broadcast on

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. Among other things, she revealed in 2009 that a leader of a youth center in

recruited young people to the Somali Islamist militia al-Shabab. She has been both physically and intellectually attacked and repeatedly threatened due to her work. She claims that Sweden is "more dangerous than Mogadishu" for a journalist who wants to tell the truth.

Awards

* 2010: Swedish Publicists' Association Freedom of Speech prize in memory of

Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...

References

1974 births Living people Swedish journalists Swedish people of Somali descent Swedish women journalists Swedish columnists Somalian journalists Somalian women journalists Swedish women columnists Somalian women columnists {{Somalia-writer-stub